Bennettitales

Notes on Bennettitales

Origin of Bennettitales

Bennettitales resembled modern Cycads but had a more diversified habit with tuberous or columnar branched trunks with persistent leaf-bases. There was a crown of pinnate leaves. The reproductive organs were borne terminally on short axillary branches arising from the trunk. The strobili were typically bisporangiate unlike those of living Cycads.

The most common fossils among the Cycadophytes are leave…

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